Kublai Khan
From Xanadu to Superpower
$45.46
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2007
Summary
The authoritative biography of the great Mongol warlord, by the author of Genghis Khan and Attila.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree
Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553817188 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553817183 |
| Author: | John Man |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 325g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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” Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live … a gripping present day quest.”
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“Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live … a gripping present day quest.”
-“Guardian” on Attilla
About The Author
John Man
John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford, the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. John has written acclaimed and highly successful biographies of Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Kublai Khan as well as Alpha Beta, on the history of the alphabet, and The Gutenberg Revolution, on the invention of printing. He is fast becoming one of the world’s most widely read historians.
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